bah. now I don't need my (studded tyred) bike to get to work anymore....
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The wisdom of studded tyres
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Posted 4 years ago #
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Thanks @SRD
Posted 4 years ago # -
You could use it for exercise though.
Posted 4 years ago # -
When adding my studded tyres over the weekend I noticed one from the set of four winter marathons I bought from Rose cycles was in fact not a 700c tyre but mysteriously a 700b tyre.
Free to anyone who can utilise it as I was gifted two additional ones by fortunate chance last year.
I normally only do the front tyre on my mountain bike, but the ice at the moment is outrageous, so having two studded tyres on has been pretty useful.
Posted 4 years ago # -
If anyone could use it, I've got one brand new 26x2.0" Marathon Winter which is surplus to requirements (I accidentally ordered the wrong size by mistake). I pitched it on the local FB group for £20 but no interest.
Posted 4 years ago # -
700b free to anyone who can utilise it as I was gifted two additional ones by fortunate chance last year.
The 700×38b Marathon Winter is 40-635mm, so rim size is up from 700c, and it's equivalent to 28×1½, which is what Pashley uses on the Roadster and larger framed traditional bikes, for example.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Cheers @Arellcat, I should have added that detail, it took a bit of head scratching & googling to figure out what the heck it was at the weekend. Apparently still the standard on dutch-style roadsters. It looks about the same bead size, so I never noticed when it arrived that it was so different to the other 3 tyres, just that it was a smaller width on side wall part. Why can't every bike standard die out apart from: 5mm hex keys, brompton and 700c wheels? Life would be so much simpler..
Posted 4 years ago # -
Went for a toddle round the reservoirs today. The bike was shod with Marathon Winters, I was shod with trail shoes. The track round the reservoirs is a sheet of knobbly ice, covered with water. I was doing fine until an off-camber bit caused the back to kick out and I had to put a foot down. There then followed a delicate pause while I realised that if I moved my foot (which had no grip whatsoever) I was going to go over. Restarting was...interesting. Genuinely a case of being able to cycle where I couldn't walk.
Posted 4 years ago # -
@greenroofer, glad you stayed upright. The same surface on WoL path. And Lymphoy. All the snow that was providing traction has gone. Just the curling rink left.
Posted 4 years ago # -
@gembo @greenroofer sounds like you need some Vittoria Rubino Pro Endurance IV G2.0 Road tyres
Posted 4 years ago # -
I do need one for the back @cocoshepherd as the sidewall on the black chilli has ruptured. Not quite sure how an am getting away with it, think it is the Kevlar.
Posted 4 years ago # -
I am sorry for your loss @gerbil that's an autocorrect correction and I'm leaving it in
Posted 4 years ago # -
@CocoShepherd - there's no problem with the tyres, what I needed was studs on my shoes (which I had left at home...)
Posted 4 years ago # -
Seems sensible to revive this thread.
I think there’s a thread from the time Planet X had a shop in Ed and massive reductions on Schwalbes studded tyres (but I can’t find it - unless it’s this one!).
At least 10 years ago!
Anyway I bought 2 pairs.
The 26” versions refused to stay on the rims I had.
The 700cs finally got an outing yesterday.
Didn’t find much ice, but plenty of frosty surfaces (see other threads).
Built a bike for the occasion.
Not sure what happens to it when small freeze goes away.
Posted 2 months ago # -
I have a spiked. Tyre - but only the 2 circles not the 4 and nowt on back. It resides on a bike I only use once in ten years. You can give me that one if you can’t think of anything else to do with it. It is VERY cold and icy in Balerno
Posted 2 months ago # -
“You can give me that one if you can’t think of anything else to do with it”
I could, but, as you know, it’s TOO BIG…
Posted 2 months ago # -
WELL that is a fair comment but maybe I could grow?
Posted 2 months ago # -
A few years ago (in fact in the winter 2016-17) I'd become complacent especially with CEC starting to grit the NEPN which was half of my commute. Sure enough, pride came before the fall and I had a big high speed crash on the road near Ocean Terminal just on sort of hoar frost that might have had some solid ice beneath. I couldn't kneel comfortably for about four months, awkward with babies to look after!
After that I was good at doing studs even if I got a bit lazy taking them off (didn't take them off the GSD until nearly May last year!)
Unfortunately this year I was too slow off the mark leading to SWMBO taking a spill trying to get up to Harlaw, and it bent and wrote off the cranks.
I find the really wide (55mm?) on the GSD to perform really well. The narrow 30mm two-rows-of-studs on my commuter are really prone to tramlining along any kind of parallel rut, groove, or crack in the surface
Posted 2 months ago # -
@Dave - totally agree. I've just ridden an HSD (same wide wheels/tyres as the GSD, I think) along the towpath, which is icy in places without too much difficulty. I didn't have studded tyres, but I have let the pressure in them drop. Even so, they did well coping with the ice and the frozen ruts.
Posted 2 months ago # -
I've always wondered; has anyone ever tried to develop a "temporary stud coat" product for bikes? Obviously the sock-style grip covers you can get for car wheels wouldn't work, but with straps and modern material design it should be possible to create a tread-only sheath for an existing tyre that would stay put without slipping and would allow you to just whack it on or off yourself in a few minutes if it looked icy outside. Might conflict with mudguards of course depending on what clearance could be achieved.
I dunno, it's just one of those ideas that seems obvious, which more often than not is less likely to mean you're the first to think of it than it is the idea is just stupid in a way you're not capable of seeing, hah.
Posted 2 months ago # -
I spent a fair bit of time this New Year picking up the Yak Trax of fellow walkers. Everyone loved them when Aldi started selling them BUT after worn a. Few times they loosen and fall off.
Chains for car wheels could work on a bike but probably cost close to price of keeping a spare front wheel with studs that you can swap in if needs.be.
I have only ever gone with the front wheel studded. But have used it so few times that the studs haven’t loosened yet and worked their way up towards the inner tube which is the issue with them. Schwalbe will send you replacement studs free [or used to]
Posted 2 months ago #
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